Security Management of the ASA/PIX Security Appliance

Security Management of the ASA/PIX Security Appliance

You should look at security management as a serious issue. The bottom line is that the security of your network is only as good as the management policies that have been deployed.

Ensure at minimum that you enforce the following from a security management perspective:

• Use username and password best practices.

• Use syslog to recognize possible security appliance or attack issues.

• Perform attack forensics, follow up on attacks, and take any required action if you think an attack has been successful on one of your network devices.

• Use CSA logs to recognize possible day-zero attacks and modify your perimeter rules to help mitigate those attacks.